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6 Feb 2024
In the last one year I must have written up to a dozen articles on the intractable problem of insecurity in the country.
6 Feb 2024
Among the reasons for the appeal of democracy world-wide are: Responsive and rule-governed leadership; freedoms and rights; political tolerance; as well as, voting system, and citizen participation through representation.
6 Feb 2024
We have had a running battle with court and custodial centre congestion, with the attendant violation, albeit inadvertent, of the constitutional rights to humane custodial conditions and speedy trial of suspects. This aberration we thought, the 2019 Act had come to ameliorate, but no.
5 Feb 2024
For eight years, former President Muhammadu Buhari, his first family, their hangers-on and political bootlickers treated Nigerians with contempt in the manner they embarked on frivolousforeign trips on the bill of taxpayers. Buhari spent a record 225 days attending to his medicals in London.
5 Feb 2024
This piece is devoted to the memory of a great African revolutionary, Major Boakye Djan. He was one of the key leaders of the Ghanaian June 4, 1979 Revolution.
5 Feb 2024
In all marital institutions, mutual love and respect are the stimulants for successful love affairs and relationships. Michelle Obama is a symbol of hope and possibility. She is also a triumph of inspiration from poverty. A woman who was born in poverty and poverty was not born in her.
5 Feb 2024
When I received the invitation to make this presentation, I was rather uncomfortable for two reasons. First, I considered the notice of two weeks to be grossly inadequate and second, I felt that the subject matter was outside my area of expertise.
5 Feb 2024
Men and women who fail to see the contrived fractured dismemberment of Afenifere or the sponsored counterfeiting of the Yoruba people’s political consciousness flagship as the death knell of the people’s just struggle for socio-economic and political progress are beyond the pale.
4 Feb 2024
Again, Abuja as an idea and reality, clocked 48 years yesterday (February 3, 1976 – February 3, 2024) without any fanfare. There should be some plaudit, however, to the management of the Abuja History and Archives Department because...
4 Feb 2024
Sometimes, a keenparticipant in the Nigerian discourse cannot but step back to review the Parkinson’s Law of Trivialitybecause the time spent by the political leadership on cheap and unimportant talk could be likened to one abandoning the main material..
4 Feb 2024
There is some difficulty in writing this. My faith asserts that death is not final but the departure of EII compels another test to convince that this is only another chapter of our lives.
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